43 - The People of King's Landing
Part 44
The Lion Knight and Dragon Princess
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Vaella’s pov
The small boat of food rocked back and forth with Arya and I sitting across the other in utter silence. I hadn’t gotten much time to speak and learn what had happened to the young Stark girl. Tapping my fingers on my knees with a black cloak hanging over my shoulders I broke the silence. “Arya, can I ask why you want to kill Cersei? I’ve heard why but I figured I should hear your side as well.”
“Joffrey and her beheaded my father in this city after they said he was falsely accused of a crime he did not commit. Her family killed my mother and brother Robb and hurt my sister Sansa. She needs to be removed from the Iron Throne.”
Nodding my head I eyed the smaller sword she was carrying compared to the one I had attached to my hip. “Who gave you your sword? Does it have a name?”
“Jon gave it to me before he went to the Wall. My sister has her own needles and I have this one. So it’s called Needle. What about yours?” She pointed her index finger at my sword.
“Rhaella, after my mother. Thankfully I’ve never had to use it yet since the day Jaime gave it to me.”
Arya made a scowled face. “Do you truly love him, the Kingslayer?”
“I owe him my life. When we first met each other we somehow found a way to simply see the other person regardless of what their station was. He’s the father of my children and a good husband compared to what people think.”
The youngest Stark girl stared at me. “Why did he kill The Mad King, your father?”
“To save the population of King's Landing and avoid bloodshed. The exact same thing we are doing now against Cersei Lannister.” I brushed hair behind my ear glancing forward seeing we were getting close to the docks of the fish shipping area. “We’re here. Remember what I told you.”
Arya resighted the words exactly. “Stick to your back and don’t kill anyone but Cersei unless we get ambushed.”
“Exactly, young Stark.” I muttered, reaching behind my head and throwing the hood over my face. I didn’t need everyone in the city to recognize my silver hair except for two people that could help with our plan to get the city's food destroyed. Once we had tied the boat ropes onto some stable ground we got off the small boat and began our walk up the hill. There weren't too many houses this far away at the water's edge making it easy to knock on the first door that we came to. Knocking three times on the wooden door it creaked open with me muttering into the barely lit darkness. “And the dragons roared as one.”
“Princess Vaella, it’s you. I had begun to fear the worst when you hadn’t come to pay me for the food I provide you weekly at Jack’s tavern.” Nallie with her light brown hair that had some gray stands in it peaked her head out from around the door noticing Arya standing behind me. “Who’s your friend, my princess?”
Looking out the corner of my eye I introduced the pair quickly knowing we needed to get to the secret passageways before sunrise. “Her name is Arya. I’m sorry to say we don’t have time to chat. I need you to transport this food into the city streets and say it’s from Vaella and Daenerys Targaryen, the last living dragons.”
“You’ve brought us smallfolk food?” Nallia asked with a pleased smile on her face.
Grasping one of her hands in mine I smiled back thankful that I had lived like them once to see how life outside the Keep truly was. Cersei thought wrong, these people aren’t your enemy. They are what give you power more than wearing a crown on your head. “I have not forgotten my subjects unlike Queen Cersei has. You help me hold the realm together. Can you do what I ask of you now?”
“Of course, my princess.” Nallia gave me a curtsy before Arya and I quickly left her sneaking through the streets until I found the back door to the tavern I knew quite well.
We didn’t utter a word while we made our way through the underground passageways. I was rather proud of myself that I was able to still remember all of these without a map. Pushing two uneven stones forward the secret passage door in front of me clicked open allowing me to slowly enter inside and see we were in the large room that had a painted map drawing out across the whole floor.
“Where do we go from here? Where’s the Queen?” Arya began looking around the room, keeping one hand on her small sword.
Slowly shifting my gaze across the room I could picture myself when I was younger running through the halls with Jaime and my brother Rhaegar when we were coming back from being on the city streets below and it was late at night. “Arya, I’m gonna go find her on my own.”
“What! No way in hell. You asked me to come with you to kill the Queen. I’m going to kill her even if you are now chickening out.” She snapped at me trying to move around me until I snagged her wrist.
“You will get to kill her like you’ve wanted I swear to you. But you can’t come with me for that to be accomplished. You must hide in the shadows until I bring her back into this area. She needs to be alone for you to be able to kill her. Do you understand me, young Stark?”
She blinked through some angry tears but nodded her head slowly yes. “I’ll follow your instructions, Vaella.”
I released her wrist heading around one of the pillars and up the nearest staircase that would lead to the Red Keep tower that overlooked the entire city. I used to go up there to watch the sunset but now I am going to face the woman who could be just as mad as my father was. Pausing in front of the open doorway I wrapped my fingers around the sword handle, finding the Lannister lioness standing in front of the large open windows overlooking the city. “Queen of the Seven Kingdoms. You must be proud of yourself.”
“The Mad King's Whore of a daughter. I didn’t expect you to be so stupid as to come try and kill me all by yourself while I hold all the power in the realm.” Cersei slowly turned on her heels until she was facing me.
“I’m not here to kill you, Cersei.” I pushed the door closed, not removing my gaze away from her vengeful green eyes. I stood next to the table keeping my distance from her and not removing my weapon. “But I can say for absolute certainty your reign ends today.”
Rhaegar’s pov
Stormfly’s wings slowly flapped while I had my sister riding her own dragon right beside me. My mothers loyal houses riders were on their own dragons flying a few feet away from us so that we were all spread out in the skies above Kings Landing. Amethyst, my mothers dragon, was hiding behind the Red Keep in the woods in case mother needed to ride her.
My aunt Daenerys dives down to the watery ground and when she got close to the ships she blew them apart with heavy dragon fire. “That’s our signal. Go, go!” I hollered to the other dragon riders beside me before diving down towards the water.
My twin sister soared down beside me destroying two ships at once. The other noble houses of Valyria did their best to destroy some ships at the same time. We definitely had the advantage of coming in at nightfall before the sun had risen above the water so they didn’t see us coming.
Tucking the reins of Stormfly she made a loud noise I clutched the reins giving her a command in high Valyrian. “Dracarys, Stormfly!” She opened her mouth wide and destroyed five ships in one hit.
“Rhaegar, what are those things?” Luciya flew over to me pointing her index finger to some men on a ship getting what looks to be a very large crossbow loaded and aimed up towards our army of dragons.
Lord Waters and his dragon drudged a large spear that was fired up in the sky at them that had come from the crossbow altering the group. “Those blasted things can kill us!”
“Argh!” I groaned, yanking Stormfly’s reins where she avoided the multiple amount of spears coming up at us not needing to get hit.
“Rhaegar!”
Whipping my head around, I recognize my sister's voice behind me screaming out. Shireen’s leg had gotten hit by one of the spears causing her to begin falling towards the water. “Luciya, no!” Her dragon's wings wrapped around her small body doing her best to secure her body before they crashed into one of the buildings creating large rubble from the collision.
